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A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Looks handy.  Tutorials for using Google Docs, sites, etc.

Another interesting option from Google. Create a quiz or survey for your class and send them the QR code to find it. It looks simple and has a video, created by high school students, to help explain how it works

There are many tools that can be used to help with the Student Learning Objectives process. This post discusses how to use Google spreadsheets to assist with the collection of data, sharing the information, and collaborating with others. There is also a link to the template the author created

Info lit exercises from Google

Handy tips on how to search on Google

The latest tips on how to use google for more efficient searching

Interesting article giving valid reasons for not supporting Google

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

Infotopia-A Safe Google Alternative Search Engine for Students

Some useful tips to improve your Google searches

Amazing site for researching artists, artworks, galleries etc..

Each exhibition tells a story using documents, photos, videos and in some cases personal accounts of events.

Good search engine for students; has American bias

Another alternative to Google for students